(Adds names of partners in initial paragraphs and details inparagraphs four, five and eight) CALGARY, Alberta, June 26 (Reuters) - Imperial Oil Ltd said on Friday it and partners Exxon Mobil Corp and BP Plc need more time before they can drill anexploratory well in Canadian Arctic waters and are seeking anextension to their exploration license in the region.

The enormous winter storm Xaver currently battering northern Europe, coming only a month after another one, brings to mind another famous storm that hit England late in the fall — the unnamed blow that generated Daniel Defoe’s nonfiction masterpiece The Storm, considered by some the first work of modern journalism.

The enormous winter storm Xaver currently battering northern Europe, coming only a month after another one, brings to mind another famous storm that hit England late in the fall — the unnamed blow that generated Daniel Defoe’s nonfiction masterpiece The Storm, considered by some the first work of modern journalism.

So the winter storm that has half the South obsessively checking its phones for NWS updates or Weather Underground forecasts has a name. It is called Leon, and it got that name from the Weather Channel, which is now naming winter storms for the exact same reason that agencies name hurricanes: it makes them easier [...]

(Adds quotes from Interior Secretary and Senator Murkowski,background) WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - The Obama administration onTuesday proposed allowing for the first time oil and gasexploration in a wide swath of U.S.

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